A dark, sharply defined opening in the Sun’s outer atmosphere has grown at an unusually fast pace, doubling in size in ...
At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to the galaxy, a decades‑old spacecraft has stumbled into a ...
Two of NASA’s longest-running space missions, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have detected a searing-hot region of space where the ...
Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...
SwRI staff prepare the Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS) for integration into a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite dedicated to tracking space weather. SWiPS will measure ...
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The solar wind, a continuous outflow of charged particles from the Sun, provides an exceptional natural laboratory for studying turbulence and magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) processes in astrophysical ...
A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter suggest that ...